Sawyer&#39;s clamp.



F. G. PREUS.

SAWYERS CLAMP.

APPLIOATION FILED MAR.28, 1911.

1,029,222, PatenltfdJunell, 1912.

ATTORNEY.

FREDERICK G. PREUS, 0F NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

SAWYER S CLAMP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 11,1912.

Application filed March 28, 1911. Serial No, 617,376.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERICK C. PREUS, a subject of the King ofDenmark, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of NewJersey, have invented certain Improvements in Sawyers Clamps, of whichthe following is a specification.

The objects of this invention are to provide a light and inexpensivedevice which can be applied to the side of a post or the like, as in thecellar of a dwelling house, and employed to clamp or hold light sticksof wood when the same are sawed, either for kindlings or for any otherpurpose; to provide such a device which will have a wide range of use orbe suitable to clamp all sorts of sticks or pieces of board; to providesuch a device which can be mounted on a post or similar surface out ofthe way and will not occupy floor space; to obtain a simple and strongconstruction which shall be durable, and not likely to get out of order,and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in thefollowing description. Referring to the accompanying drawings, in whichlike numerals of reference indicate the same parts throughout theseveral figures, Figure 1 is a front view of my im proved clamp, mountedupon a post or the like in position for use; Fig. 2 is a verticalcentral section of the same taken on line A-A, of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 isa transverse section taken on line BB of Fig. 2.

In said drawings, 1 indicates an upright post or joist such as is commonin cellars of houses and similar places, and to which is shown attachedby means of screws 2 or the like, the plate-like body portion 3 of myimproved clamp. Said body portion is elongated vertically and adjacentto its lateral edges are forwardly projecting ribs 4, 4, preferablyroughened or serrated along their outer edges 5, to better engage thestick 6 to be sawed. Arms 7, 7 project forwardly and upwardly from thelower ends of the ribs 4, 4, to form a rest or seat for the stick 6 tobe held, and which arms are also preferably roughened or serrated attheir upper edges 8, as shown.

Extending longitudinally of the plate 3 and preferably substantiallycentral thereof is a slot or slideway 9, and at the opposite edges ofsaid slot are flanges 10, 10, projecting forwardly from the plate 3 andthen toward each other in over the slot 9, so as to form a narrower slot11 in front of the post or joist 1 and thus forms a slideway forthe Thead of a holding lever 14 adapted to project forwardly through the slot11 and away from the plate 3 between the arms 4, 4, so that pressure canbe applied to its outer end to hold the stick 6 in place, as shown inFig. 1. Said T head is formed by trunnions 15, 15 on opposite sides ofthe end of the lever 14, adapted to enter the sockets 13 or pass up anddown the slideway 9 to reach sockets at any height. The tops of thechannel 9 and slot 11, preferably open out through the upper end of thebody plate 3, so that the head of the holding lever can pass entirelyout of its slideway if desired. It will be noted that the said trunnions15, 15 not only fulcrum the lever 14 to swing pivotally, but alsoprevent said lever from escaping forwardly from the slot- 11 and awayfrom the body, portion. The

lever is thus always in position ready to swing up and down or adjust tosuit the stick to be sawed.

In operation, the stick 6 to be sawed is laid across the forwardlyprojecting arms 7 and the lever 14 is slid down the slideway untilitcomes in contact with the stick 6, when a slight outwardly downwardpull on the handle of said lever will seat the trunnions 15 in the rightsockets for proper fulcruming of the lever. When this has beenaccomplished, the handle of the lever may be pressed downward with onehand while the other hand is free to use a handsaw.

Although the gripping lever may be straight, I prefer to have it curved,as shown in the drawings. This is to extend the range of use of theclamp, as it is evident that should one wish to saw a stick of largediameter the holding of the same would be greatly facilitated byslipping the lever head 13 out of the top of the slideway 9 andreversing the curve of the lever arm, as shown in dot-ted lines in Fig.2.

Various modifications in the detail construction of my improved sawyersclamp may be employed without departing from the spirit and scope of theinvention, and I therefore do not wish to be understood as limitingmyself herein, except as the state of the art may require.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim is:

1. A sawyers clamp comprising in combination a body portion adapted tobe secured in an upright position and having a vertical slot withforwardly and upwardly closed sockets on its opposite walls, a rest fora stick to be sawed on the lower part of said body portion, and a leverhaving its end lying in said slot and provided with trunnions to entersaid sockets.

2. In a sawyers clamp, the combination of a body portion having anupwardly extending slot open at its top "and at the back of the bodyportion and provided at its opposite side walls with undercut socketsopening rearward, a lever having an end adapted to slide in said slotand provided with trunnions to enter said sockets, said lever adapted toproject forwardly from the body portion, and arms projecting from saidbody portion and forming therewith a rest for a stick to be sawedbeneath said lever.

3. In a sawyers clamp, the combination of a body portion having anupwardly eX- tending slot and a series of upwardly and forwardly closedfulcrum seats arranged along said slot and open toward the rear side ofthe body portion, a lever in said slot projecting forwardly from thebody portion, means on the lever for engaging said seats and preventingescape of the lever forwardly through the slot, and a rest projectingforwardly from the body portion beneath said lever in such relation tosaid lever as that a stick to be sawed can be clamped upon said rest bydownward swinging of the lever.

Russian, W. EVERETT, CORNELIUS ZABRISKIE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

